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Gargoyles
Gargoyles (1906), PDF p. 104
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THE BEAUTY AND THE BHIKKHU:
A TALE OF THE TENTH IMPURITY.
(From the Pals.)
I.
LiIsTEN! The venerable monk pursued
His path with downcast eyes; his thought re-
volved
Ever in closer coils serenely screwed
About the Tenth Impurity. Dissolved
All vision of his being but of one
Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton.
II.
A dainty lady sick of simple life,
Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man,
Put on her jewels, off the word of wife,
Resolved to play the painted courtesan;
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